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Cleaning the head of the Fish – Part 5

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Cleaning the head of the Fish

Part 5

By MLJ on 31th December 2015 (edited 19.07.2016)

 

The crop of the serpent is about to be cut down.

The meaning of the boulders is about to be known.

The purpose of the quest is about to be realized.

The meeting of the fortunates will soon commence.

Be not fearful of the events.

Be ever on the ready.

The serpent has ruled unjustly and unfairly.

The bell will toll.

The Light will shine.

I will soon gather all that are mine.

Best Wishes,

 

Credit and further Insights: M 24 Amitakh

 

During 2014 an internationally coordinated and co-created crystalline grid construct and reconfiguration became operational.

During July 2015 inspired actions were undertaken to further refine and elaborate on the established construct, and initially foresaw the creation of three additional nodes. However, as further inspiration and insights dictated, the endeavour took on unforeseen dimensions.

The realisation of wholesale infiltration and corruption combined with divinely inspired actions resulted in the co-creation of a multi-faceted construct for purification, purging and healing of all at all levels to facilitate transcendence of duality. Additionally, proprietary or imposed self-limiting patterns are deconstructed, with grace and ease.

The project is open source in as much as it is intended for ALL

Three pivotal crystalline nodes, form the backbone of the architecture. Direct and symbolic links connect to locations and realms forming a multi-facetted gem shaped construct characterised by dynamic, momentum and torque. Integration of an infinity engine, ensures that the purification and healing mechanism will function in perpetuity.

The newly created grid was integrated into the 2014 construct.

These reports shall be restricted to the divinely inspired co-creation, not proceeding 2015 and illustrate sections of the architecture, whilst offering historical context and insights…

 

 

The Turks have a homely proverb applied on such occasions: they say “the fish stinks first at the head”, meaning, that if the servant is disorderly, it is because the master is so.
 
When an organization or state fails, it is the leadership that is the root cause, as such the context of the chosen article series title, should be apparent.
 
This proverb is of ancient origin but precisely which of the ancients coined it is probably beyond our ken at this distant remove.
 
The early date of this citation and the fact Porter was in a position to be authoritative on the Turkish custom, being as he was British ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire for 15 years in the second half of the 18th century, gives Turkey a strong claim to be the birthplace of this proverb.
 
Of course, the proverb isn’t a lesson in piscine biology. The phrase appears to have been used in Turkey in a metaphorical rather than literal sense from the outset. That’s just as well as, in reality, it is the guts of fish that rot and stink before the head. 
 
 
Many countries lay claim to it. I’ve seen sources that place it in China, Russia, Poland, England, Greece and so on…, but usually with no evidence to substantiate those claims. A correspondent of mine has asserted that it was written in a Greek text by Erasmus, who died in 1546. That may be the case, but I’ve not been able to substantiate that claim.
 
All of the early examples of the phrase in print in English prefer the ‘a fish stinks from the head down’ variant to ‘a fish rots from the head down’, which is more popular nowadays.
 
Those early examples all ignore the nations mentioned above and credit the term to the Turks. Sir James Porter’s Observations on the religion, law, government, and manners of the Turks, 1768, includes this proverb:
 
Credit and further Insights: phrases.org.uk
 
 

“A fish rots from the head down”. Invite beings of All Realms, Nations, Governments and Royal Houses along on your Journey…

 

Click on image, or here to listen to “European Royal Families”
 
 
 

Externsteine, Teutoberg Forest, Germany, the Mystery Tour continues…

 

Click here for more images of Externsteine

Click on image, or here to view “Externstein in Horn-Bad Meinberg”

Archaeological excavations have yielded some Upper Paleolithic stone tools dating to about 10,700 BC from 9,600 BC. Beneath a rock overhang on rock VIII, microliths from the Ahrensburg culture such as arrow heads or blades were found. Evidence of fire sites was also found. The area was thus frequented by nomadic groups who used the stones as a temporary shelter.[4]:13

The site is associated with archaeoastronomical speculation; a circular hole above the “altar stone” in the Höhenkammer has been identified in this context as facing in the direction of sunrise at the time of summer solstice.[5]

The Externsteine [ˈɛkstɐnʃtaɪnə] is a distinctive sandstone rock formation located in the Teutoburg Forest, near the town of Horn-Bad Meinberg in the Lippe district of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The formation is a tor consisting of several tall, narrow columns of rock which rise abruptly from the surrounding wooded hills.

In a popular tradition going back to an idea proposed to Hermann Hamelmann in 1564, the Externsteine are identified as a sacred site of the pagan Saxons, and the location of the Irminsul idol reportedly destroyed by Charlemagne; there is however no archaeological evidence that would confirm the site’s use during the relevant period.

The stones were used as the site of a hermitage in the Middle Ages, and by at least the high medieval period were the site of a Christian chapel. The Externsteine relief is a medieval depiction of the Descent from the Cross. It remains controversial whether the site was already used for Christian worship in the 8th to early 10th centuries.

There remains a contradiction between the use of the Externsteine as a simple roadhouse for travellers and as an hermitage on the one hand and the presence of the monumental relief and the Arcosolium on the other. These may indeed have been a reconstruction of the Holy Sepulchre. The remains visible today indicate the possibility that the Externsteine were intended as a destination for pilgrims unable to travel to Jerusalem. To that end many medieval churches created copies of the Holy Sepulchre (de). However, it is unclear who could have built it here and why there is no written evidence of such a relatively elaborate undertaking.[4]:16

Credit and further Insights: wikipedia.org

 

Click here for more images of Externsteine Rune Stones

Click on image, or here to view “Gift From The Stones

 

 

Externsteine, anchoring energies of Love and Light throughout the ages.

 

 

A special History surrounds this place, take part in our journey.

Invite yourselves on a journey that offers a moment to release all feelings and though forms that are not of the light.

Just let them go and sent them to this very special place where the divine energy is enriched with the Violet Flame of Transmutation, a special gift from Ascended Master Saint Germain.

 

Basic Invocation of the Violet Flame

 

Call on Divine powerful energy, The Violet Flame of Saint Germain and transmute all your pain, fear and all negative thoughts to those of Love Light, Compassion, Abundance, Joy, Peace and Harmony.

Visit Carona, in spirit or in embodiment. Feel the loving and caring energy, that are there awaiting you!

 

Live in the NOW, set yourself free.

Forgive and Love yourself. 

Life is a gift, celebrate it!

 

 

Next stop:

Basel, canton Basel-Stadt, Switzerland

 

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Credit: tagblatt.ch

Click on image, or here to view “Basel Stadt Rundflug

The canton of Basel-Stadt is located in the north of Switzerland. It borders Germany and France to the north (the three countries meet at the Dreiländereck), and Basel-Landschaft to the south. Basel is located at the so-called ‘knee‘ of the River Rhine, at the point where from the west the little Birsig River joins the Rhine from the left, and where the Rhine itself switches from flowing in a westerly direction to a northerly flow.

Credit and further Insights: wikipedia.org

During the days of the Roman Empire, the settlement of Augusta Raurica was founded 10 to 20 km (6 to 12 mi) upstream of present Basel, and a castle was built on the hill overlooking the river where the Basel Münster now stands. But even older Celtic settlements (including a vitrified fort) have been discovered recently in the area predating the Roman castle.

The town of Basel was called Basilea or Basilia in Latin (from Ancient Greek BasileiaΒασιλεια meaning kingship) and this name is documented from 374 AD.[9]

The Magyars destroyed Basel in 917, and later burnt down the monasteries of St. Gallen and Rheinau. Their incursions only ended when they were routed by the German king Otto I in 955.[10]

Since the donation by Rudolph III of Burgundy[11] of the Moutier-Grandval Abbey and all its possessions to Bishop Adalbero II in 999 till the Reformation, Basel was ruled by prince-bishops (see Bishop of Basel,[12] whose memory is preserved in the crosier shown on the Basel coat-of-arms  ).

Credit and further Insights: wikipedia.org

 

In 1225-1226 the bridge over the Rhine was constructed by Bishop Henrich von Thun and lesser Basel (Kleinbasel) founded as a bridgehead to protect the bridge. The bridge was largely funded by Basel’s Jewish community which had settled there a century earlier.[14] For many centuries to come Basel possessed the only permanent bridge over the river “between Lake Constance and the sea”.

In 1412 (or earlier), the well-known guesthouse Zum Goldenen Sternen was established. Basel became the focal point of western Christendom during the 15th century Council of Basel (1431–1449), including the 1439 election of antipope Felix V. In 1459, Pope Pius II endowed the University of Basel where such notables as Erasmus of Rotterdam and Paracelsus later taught. At the same time the new craft of printing was introduced to Basel by apprentices of Johann Gutenberg.

The Schwabe publishing house was founded in 1488 by Johannes Petri and is the oldest publishing house still in business. Johann Froben also operated his printing house in Basel and was notable for publishing works by Erasmus.[15] In 1495, Basel was incorporated in the Upper Rhenish Imperial Circle; the Bishop of Basel was added to the Bench of the Ecclesiastical Princes. In 1500 the construction of the Basel Münster was finished. In 1521 so was the bishop. The Council, under the supremacy of the guilds, explained that henceforth they would only give allegiance to the Swiss Confederation, to whom the bishop appealed but in vain.[14]

The canton of Basel-Stadt was created when the historic canton of Basel was divided in 1833, following political quarrels and armed conflict in the canton. Some of these were concerned with the rights of the population in the agricultural areas. They ultimately led to the separation of the canton Basel-Landschaft from the city of Basel on 26 August 1833. Since then, there has been a movement for reunification. This movement gained momentum after 1900 when many parts of Basel-Landschaft became industrialized. The two half-cantons agreed in principle to reunite, but in 1969, and again in September 2014, the people of Basel-Landschaft voted against this proposal in favour of retaining their independence

Credit and further Insights: wikipedia.org

 

Basel Cathedral 

The Basel Minster (German: Basler Münster) is one of the main landmarks and tourist attractions of the Swiss city of Basel. It adds definition to the cityscape with its red sandstone architecture and coloured roof tiles, its two slim towers and the cross-shaped intersection of the main roof. The Münster is listed as a heritage site of national significance in Switzerland.[1]

Originally a Catholic cathedral and today a Reformed Protestant church, it was built between 1019 and 1500 in Romanesque and Gothic styles. The late Romanesque building was destroyed by the 1356 Basel earthquake and rebuilt by Johannes Gmünd, who was at the same time employed for building the Freiburg Münster. This building was extended from 1421 by Ulrich von Ensingen, architect of the cathedral towers at Ulm and Strasbourg. The southern tower was completed in 1500 by Hans von Nußdorf.

In 1424, Pope Martin V informed Basel’s government that their city has been chosen to be the site of the next council. The main goal of the meetings held by Basel’s council between 1431 and 1449 was to implement a church reform. Following the orders of Pope Eugene IV, president of the council at that time, Julian Cesarini, left Basel in 1438. One year later, on 24 July 1440, Felix V was elected as a counter pope at Basel’s Münsterplatz. The German Emperor, Frederick III, arranged for the dissolution of the council in Basel because Felix V could not prevail. After the closure of the pontifical university, citizens made an effort to establish a new university. The council’s secretary, Pope Pius II, made it possible to enact the papal bull and to open the Basel University as an independent university on 4 April 1460.

 

ErasmusParacelsusDaniel BernoulliLeonhard EulerJacob BurckhardtFriedrich NietzscheTadeusz ReichsteinKarl Jaspers and Karl Barth worked here. The University of Basel is currently counted among the 100 best educational institutions worldwide.[60]

However, former students report some student societies serve as recruiting and indoctrination hotbeds for dark freemasonry and other esoteric oriented associations.

Staff confirm that they are aware of nefarious activities taking place, and are not in agreement.

It is not denied that high level staff members of the university psychiatry department find fitting to employ known cult members, have a history of assisting in the identification of potential freemasonry candidates, aiding and abbeting the psychological and emotional abuse and depravation, as well as trauma based mind controlling of innocent children, whilst covering up such unlawful acts.                               Inauguration ceremony of the University of Basel, 1460

This is not surprising considering the tainted history of psychiatry and associated “voodoo” sciences.

In 2007, the ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich) established the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE) in Basel. The creation of the D-BSSE was driven by a Swiss-wide research initiative SystemsX, and was jointly supported by funding from the ETH Zürich, the Swiss Government, the Swiss University Conference (SUC) and private industry.[61]

Basel also hosts several academies of the Fachhochschule NW (FHNW): the FHNW Academy of Art and DesignFHNW Academy of Music, and the FHNW School of Business..[62]

Basel is renowned for various scientific societies, such as the Entomological Society of Basel (Entomologische Gesellschaft Basel, EGB), which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2005.[63]

Credit and further Insights: wikipedia.org 

 

Destruction of religious paintings[edit]

Iconoclasm in Zurich, 1524

During the iconoclasm of the Protestant Reformation, many valuable pieces of art belonging to the city of Basel and the minster were destroyed in 1528 and 1529. Numerous citizens stormed many of the churches in Basel, some of them by armed force in order to demolish religious paintings and statues. Huldrych Zwingli, an influential church reformer, condemned the worship of God in the form of pictures as idolatry.

 

A beautiful city steeped in history, however, do not be decieved by appearances. 

Little is known of the darker side, which seemingly accounts for the wide-scale disfunctional and, subversive nature of the administration, judiciary, education, finance and other institutions, which seems to have been infiltrated and infested by dark occultist belief systems at the highest decision making levels, despite assertions that “all is running well in Basel”. 

 

 

Credit and further Insights in German

 

Above depicted the seat of KESB, an institution notorious for contempt for human rights, abuses, lack of accountability and questionable legitimisation. It is the home of Basel’s very own denazification courts (sic) (Spruchkammer I and II)[def] which are well known for abuses of power, unlawfullness, and the abrogation of human rights of children and the elderly. Thus, under the guise of protecting the interests of the weakest members of society, they are regularly, albeit curory, mentioned in the local and national media, for their demonstatively accusatory inversionist modus operandi. 

In Switzerland – a country where freedom is lauded as the highest principle, demonstratively employs enforced cooersive psychiatry for societal opression and re-engineering

Inconvienient “educated layperson” completely lose their voice whilst demigods in white – who are sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry . take merciless decisions in alliance with the justice system about the fate of those who have been labelled psychologically instable

Credit  behaviorismandmentalhealth.com and further Insights

 

A “conspiratorial theorist” may explain the driving mechanisms of this behaviour as follows; 

there is an element of wickedness in them, because they know what is required to be a ‘normal’ person. They put on the face of a ‘normal person’ for the public, but behind closed doors they let their masks down and let their wickedness come out. They also tend to prey on the weak (their young children; a person they’ve conned into loving them; a person dependent on them). And they use any vulnerability or love someone has to their advantage.

Yet, at their core, they are weak, immature, intellectually vacant, and, yes, crazy. It’s just that they’re so brilliant on putting on a show — it fools us. And that’s what makes them dangerous. Their lack of empathy for their diabolical behavior is especially abusive.” 

“For victims of narcs, perhaps the worst part is that no one believes you. Their brilliance at ‘putting on the mask’ for public consumption is so believable — so compelling — that very few people will be willing to believe that what they’re seeing is a lie. Rough situation. Not easy at all. But I believe overcoming the narc ‘web’ makes us stronger. “ 

“When they’re feeling threatened or bored, psychopaths will often use what’s called “word salad” as an attempt to regain control over you. Basically, it’s a conversation from hell. They aren’t actually saying anything at all. They’re just talking at you. Before you can even respond to one outrageous statement, they’re already on to the next. You’ll know it in a second, because you’ll be left with your head spinning.

Credit and further Insights: philosophers-stone.co.uk
 

They work hand-in-hand with state institutions such as the Civil Courts, and supposed child protective agencies such as  KJUP ,  KJD and the Department of Education .

 

Considering the makeup of these Institutions, they would point out that behaviour is likely dictated by doctrins of The Frankfurt School , Curious Sects and other destabilising manifestos, demonstrating the limitless human capacity for self-delusion. 

Of course, this would not be tenable, destitute of political establishment tolerance and approval of Cantonal  and National Government in Bernwhich are increasingly viewed, with contempt and distrust by an ever growing majority of decent Swiss people. 

 

“Political Ponerology is a study of the founders and supporters of oppressive political regimes. Lobaczewski’s approach analyses the common factors to the propagation of man’s inhumanity to man. Morality and humanism cannot long withstand the predation of this evil. Knowledge of it’s nature – and it’s insidious effect on both individuals and groups – is the only antidote. “

Read an interview with the author , Andrew Lobaczewski

Credit and further Insights: ponerology.com

 

Dr Peter Zihlmann, a respected critic of the justice system and author, identifies the political structure within the Justice system, as “only as good as the general weather conditions”,  ”orientated by the wind of the Zeitgeistes” , “trapped in the corset of the whole political system”. Further that the Courts of Appeal Courts “has always been, largely,  a “confirmation ritual”.

Credit and further Insights: peter.zihlmann.com

 

An entymological definition of the english word “Justice”, which exists since c. 1140 AD, is “the excerise of authority in vindication of right by assigning reward or punishment”

Credit and further Insights: suite.io

 

Further…

Although Switzerland is dominated by the Protestant and Catholic religions, it’s longtime history of tolerance had made it fertile ground for a number of unusual faiths. The Swiss, in contrast to their often dour exteriors, ”need to be a little bit crazy,” said Georg Schmid, a professor who also operates a cult information center in Zurich. ”We have a hidden side. We often live this out in our religion. It’s our relief and our escape.”

Occult practices are also popular in Switzerland.

“People have an appetite to believe something”, “but the sects don’t only provide spirituality, the give power or importance to people who are lacking it” 

Credit and further Insights: nytimes.com

 

To illustrate;  recent opening in 2016 of the Gothard Base Tunnel was attended by some of the most “powerful” occult elite, and described by some as a “dark, disturbing, wierdly satanic ritual”.

Credit and further Insights: virgilantcitizen.com

 

Click on image, or here to view “Bizarre Opening Ceremony For Gotthard Base Tunnel In Switzerland

 

 

Basel’s predilection, therefore to “Dark Hats”, griffins, and serpent kings, is perhaps, not by happenstance 

Click on image, or here to view “Vogel Gryff Basel

 

Since 1956 Willy Heges „Schlange“ slithers near the Wettstein bridge in Basel.

Foto: A. Mahro

Credit: badische-zeitung.de

 

In  European bestiaries and legends, a basilisk (/ˈbæzɪlɪsk/,[1] from the Greek βασιλίσκος basilískos, “little king;” Latin regulus) is a legendary reptile reputed to be king of serpents and said to have the power to cause death with a single glance.

 

Credit and further Insights: wikipedia.org 

 

The basilisk appears in the Bible ”.. since the serpent’s stock can still produce a basilisk, and the offspring of that will be a flying dragon.” 

The King James Bible says “out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.”

In the 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer wrote about a basilicok (as he called it) in The Canterbury Tales – in which he imagines the stories some pilgrims might tell each other on their way to Canterbury. 

Leonardo da Vinci wrote about the basilisk in his Bestiary, (a collection of notes about animals) saying it is so cruel that if it cannot kill animals by its “baleful gaze, it turns upon herbs and plants, and fixing its gaze on them withers them up.” He also included the Phoenix in his list!

 

Credit and further Insights: myths.e2bn.org

 

Zionism

The first Zionist Congress was convened by Theodor Herzl as a symbolic parliament for the small minority[3] of Jewry in agreement with the implementation of Zionist goals. While Jewish majority opposition to Zionism would continue until after revelation of the Holocaust in WWII,[4] some proponents point to several directions and streams of this early Jewish opposition. “Alongside the dynamic development of the Zionist movement, which generated waves of enthusiasm throughout the Jewish public, sharp criticism began to appear about Zionism, claiming that Zionism could not hope to resolve the Jewish problem and would only serve to harm the status of Jewish laborers and sabotage its own recognition as an independent class.”[2][5] As a result of the vocal opposition by both the Orthodox and Reform community leadership, the Congress, which was originally planned in MunichGermany, was transferred to Basel by Herzl.[1][2] The Congress took place in the concert hall of the Municipal Casino on August 29, 1897.

Credit and further Insights: wikipedia.org

Wikipedia entries, seemingly, are alluding to Zionist goals , which may be why Zionism could not hope to resolve the Jewish problem

 

Click on image, or here to view “The BIS in Basel…

Credit and further Insights 

 

Several authors allude to the deceptive association between the word Zionism and a Biblical Zion

“Zionism became a political agenda of the Bolshevik Illuminati to capture the area of Israel for the Antichrist. In fact, their agenda is to rule the world from Jerusalem. When the Battle of Armageddon takes place the Antichrist gathers all the world’s armies to Israel to fight against the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. At that time, the Antichrist is ruling from Jerusalem.

The agenda started back when the Edomite Bolshevik Jews financed Hitler’s rise to power in Germany to set up the conditions to establish their own Nation of Israel for Illuminati rule and that is exactly what happened with the Nazi Holocaust. Who was behind the holocaust? The Edomite Jews. Why? Because they wanted to get rid of the Torah believing Jews and establish a Babylonian Talmudic Jewish nation in Israel. And that is what we have today with Zionism. Talmudic Jews ruling, pushing the agenda of the New World Order and Illuminati to set the nation up for the rule of the Antichrist.”

Credit and further Insights: sherryshriner.com

 

A Jewish homeland was, however, already established by Stalin in the Russia’s Far East, some 20 years before the founding of Israel in an area popularly known as Birobidzhan

 

Russian president Vladimir Putin has said that Jews made up “80 to 85 percent of the first government of the Soviet Union” following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

Putin’s speech, made on June 13 2013, was reported by the official Jewish Telegraphic Agency in an article six days later dealing with Putin’s visit to the Moscow “Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center.”

 

Credit and further Insights: davidduke.com

 

Dr. Sdf. Sean Hross, a political prisoner, offers further enlightening insights, exposing high level organized criminal mafia that funds and creates wars for profit, political control, hidden Dark Freemasonry, NWO Nobility and the Pharaonic Templar banking elite in Switzerland. He is most well known for his films on youtube “The Pharaoh Show”, and “Octogon The Empire of Darkness”, The World’s Most Dangerous Mafia, Pharistocracy, and The Pyramid Show – Octogon vs. Occitania as well as many more. 

Credit and further Insights: Knawlydawg

 

The vast majority of Swiss citizens are ignorant, in denial or apathetic of such matters, after centuries of conditioning and mind control. Bless their little hearts.

 

On the bright side, Basel is home to one of the worlds better Precision Drum Corps  has its roots in the rich drumming traditions of the band’s home city, Basel, Switzerland, which is known for its annual carnival called Fasnacht.

Credit and further Insights: wikipedia.org 

 

Click on image, or here to view “Top Secret Drum Corps

 

Next stop:

Konstanz, Germany

 

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Credit: inghams.co.uk

Click on image, or here to view “Lake Constance: History Meets Alpine Beauty

 

Konstanz (pronounced ['k?nstants], locally ['k?n?tants]; EnglishConstanceLatinConstantia) is a university city with approximately 80,000 inhabitants located at the western end of Lake Constance in the south-west corner of Germany, bordering Switzerland. The city houses the University of Konstanz and was for more than 1200 years residence of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Konstanz.

The first traces of civilization in Konstanz date back to the late Stone Age. During the reign of Augustus, the Celts living south of the Danube were conquered by the Romans. Around 40 AD, the first Romans settled on the site. This small town on the left bank of the Rhine was probably first called Drusomagus and belonged to the Roman province of Raetia. Its later name, originally Constantia, comes either from the Roman emperor Constantius Chlorus, who fought the Alemanni in the region and built a strong fortress around 300 AD, or from his grandson Constantius II, who visited the region in 354. The remains of the late Roman fortress Constantia were discovered in 2003.

Around 585 the first bishop took up residence in Konstanz and this marked the beginning of the city’s importance as a spiritual centre. By the late Middle Ages, about one quarter of Konstanz’s 6,000 inhabitants were exempt from taxation on account of clerical rights.

The first mention of a church in Konstanz dedicated to the Virgin Mary was in 615.[citation needed] Documentary confirmation of the Episcopal church Ecclesia sanctae Mariae urbis Constantiae is dated to the mid 8th century. There is clear evidence indicating that it was located on the Cathedral Hill, where a late Romanesque fortification with an adjoining civilian settlement had been established. In 780, the church was mentioned in a confirmation of a contract by Charlemagne.

St. Maurice’s Rotunda (Holy Sepulchre) was built in 940 on orders of Bishop Konrad (934 – 975) who was canonized in 1123.

Credit and further Insights: wikipedia.org

The cathedral of Constance is the meeting place for pilgrims from Southern Germany and Switzerland who want to set out on the Caminofe Santiago ( Pererinatio Compestellana ) through Switzerland to Santiago de Compostela. The route leads through the Thurgau and Zürich’s Oberland to the lake of Zürich, then across the Etzel pass to Einsiedeln. 

Trade thrived during the Middle Ages; Konstanz owned the only bridge in the region, which crossed the Rhine, making it a strategic location. Its linen production had made an international name for the city and it was prosperous. In 1192, Konstanz gained the status of Imperial City so it was henceforth subject only to the Holy Roman Emperor.

Click for more images of Konstanz Cathedral

 

Credit: 123rf.com

Click on image, or here to view “Konstanz Cathedral

 

In 1414 to 1418, the Council of Constance took place, during which, on 6 July 1415, John Hus (Czech religious thinker, philosopher and reformer), who was seen as a threat to Christianity by the Roman Catholic Church, was burned at the stake. It was here that the Papal Schism was ended and Pope Martin V was elected during the only conclave ever held north of the Alps. Ulrich von Richental‘s illustrated chronicle of the Council of Constance testifies to all the major happenings during the Council as well as showing the everyday life of medieval Konstanz. The Konzilgebäude where the conclave was held can still be seen standing by the harbour. Close by stands the Imperia, a statue that was erected in 1993 to commemorate the Council.

In 1460, the Swiss Confederacy conquered Thurgau, Konstanz’s natural hinterland. Konstanz then made an attempt to get admitted to the Swiss Confederacy, but the forest cantons voted against its entry, fearing over-bearing city states; Konstanz then joined the Swabian League instead. In the Swabian War of 1499, Konstanz lost its last privileges over Thurgau to the Confederation.

The Protestant Reformation took hold in Konstanz in the 1520s, headed by Ambrosius Blarer. Soon the city declared itself officially Protestant, pictures were removed from the churches, and the bishop temporarily moved to Meersburg, a small town across the lake. The city first followed the Tetrapolitan Confession, and then the Augsburg Confession. However, in 1548 Emperor Charles V imposed the Imperial Ban on Konstanz and it had to surrender to Habsburg Austria which had suddenly attacked. Thus Konstanz lost its status as an imperial city. The new Habsburg rulers were eager to re-Catholicise the town and in 1604 a Jesuit College was opened. Its accompanying theatre, built in 1610, is the oldest theatre in Germany still performing regularly.

The city became part of the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1806. In 1821, the Bishopric of Constance was dissolved and became part of the Archdiocese of Freiburg. Konstanz became part of the German Empire in 1871 during the unification of Germany. After World War I it was included within the Republic of Baden.

Konstanz was the birthplace of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, constructor of the famous Zeppelin airships.

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Konstanz is a beautiful German town, situated on the edge of Lake Constance, which is one of the biggest Goddess vortexes in Europe.

 

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Next stop:

Stein am Rhine, canton Shaffhausen, Switzerland

 

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In or around 1007 Emperor Henry II moved St George’s Abbey from its former location on the Hohentwiel in Singen to Stein am Rhein, at that time little more than a small fishing village on the Rhine. This was in order to strengthen his presence at this strategic point where major road and river routes intersected. He gave the abbots extensive rights over Stein and its trade so that they could develop it commercially. In this they were very successful, and Stein am Rhein rapidly became a flourishing and prosperous town which in the 15th century was itself (if briefly) granted reichsfrei status.

The Imperial abbey also prospered and in the 15th century completely rebuilt its premises, which remain as a significant example of late Gothic architecture in the region.

Under the Reformation however the abbey was secularised and its assets taken over by Zürich. Abbot von Winkelsheim negotiated a settlement with the Zürich authorities, whereby, although control of the abbey was handed over to them, he and the remaining monks would be allowed to remain on the premises until their deaths. 

 

Stein am Rhein is reported to be the location of an important Pleiadian vortex spot in Switzerland, not too far from where Billy Meier had his contact with the Pleiadians. 

Credit and further Insights: 2012portal.blogspot.ch

 

Next stop:

Diessenhofen, canton Thurgau, Switzerland

 

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Diessenhofen is first mentioned in 757 as Deozincova.[3] In 2000, the village of Willisdorf was incorporated into the municipality. The earliest traces of a settlement are Stone and Bronze Age scattered objects found in the shallow valleys of the district and on the banks of the Rhine. A hoard of coins from the Roman era (251-270), and the remains of three towers of the Danube-Iller-Rhein Limes (4th century) show Roman settlements in the area. The reference in a deed of the Abbey of St. Gall from 757 mention an Alamanni village, which was probably on the plateau south of the church. In 1178 Count Hartmann III. of Kyburg, raised the village to town and probably appointed a Ministerialis (unfree knights in the service of a feudal overlord) family as the Stewards of Diessenhofen. By 1245, at the latest, it was the center of a bailiwick and a castle was built in town. Compared to Schaffhausen and Stein am Rhein, Diessenhofen was a modest market town. Hartmann granted the town a measure of freedom and self-government. He used the castle and bridge over the Rhine to secure and defend his possessions on both sides of the Rhine. After the extinction of the Kyburgs and the transition of sovereignty to the Habsburgs in 1264, the city developed as one of the cornerstones of the region. The Stewards, who sat at Unterhof Castle, temporarily united both the Vogt and Schultheiss offices into a single person. By 1320 the citizens chose a Town Council of 8-12 members, and during the 15th Century this evolved into a 24-28 member Grand Town Council. In 1349, the Duke of Austria wrestled the Vogt office away from the Stewards and granted it to another Ministerialis. These two developments made citizenship rights in Diessenhofen increasingly important.[3]

The loss of Habsburg influence and the decline of the Habsburg supported Stewards gradually transformed the city between 1415 and 1442. Diessenhofen was captured in 1460 during the conquest of Thurgau by the Swiss Confederation. The town was besieged for ten days before it was captured, but, much like Frauenfeld, it retained certain privileges in the new Thurgau. These included both the high and low courts and the recently acquired customs, tax and Vogt rights, as well as the castle. After 1574 they also acquired the rights over the left bank of the Rhine and the possessions of Paradise Monastery. During the 16th Century, the town gained the low court rights over most of the modern Diessenhofen District. Diessenhofen’s court decisions did not have to be approved by the Governor in Frauenfeld, but went directly to the Confederation Council, in contrast to the rest of Thurgau. The city only had to pay homage to the Governor every two years.[3]

The patronage of the church of St. Dionysius is mentioned in 1468. The advowson right in the 12th Century was included in the possession of the Count of Thurgau. By 1230 it was held by the Kyburgs. In 1264, the city government through the Habsburgs had the right. Practically, the citizens exercised the right after 1383 and it was legally confirmed in 1415. When the Protestant Reformation entered the town in 1524, many citizens converted to the new religion. The Mass was abolished in 1529 by the Protestant pastor, who also ordered the confiscation of Catholic Church property. Diessenhofen supported the city of Zurich in the Second war of Kappel in 1531, which ended in a Protestant defeat. After the defeat, the Catholic cantons reintroduced the Mass in 1532. The church remained a shared church until the construction of the Catholic Church in 1966-67. In 1349 the Jewish community of Diessenhofen was driven out of town. In 1401 a Jewish man was successfully prosecuted for ritual murder, which led to further persecution in Winterthur and Schaffhausen. During the 13th Century, two Nunneries were built between Diessenhofen and Schaffhausen, St. Katharinental and Paradise, which remained in operation until their dissolution in the 19th Century.[3]

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Kloster St. Katharinental

 

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